Neuroexperiments

Understanding how the brain allows us to perceive, think and interact with the world is a monumental challenge. Kavli NDI is focused on investigating the nervous system as it relates to development, plasticity, perception and cognition across multiple observational scales and biological disciplines.

Neuroengineering

Building tools to measure, manipulate, and model the brain within and across spatial and temporal scales.

Discovery in neuroscience is increasingly dependent on the engineering-based science of building innovative tools and technology. Kavli NDI is committed to developing vanguard technologies to measure, manipulate and model the brain and behavior, in close collaboration with experimentalists and theorists.

Neurodata

Kavli NDI is dedicated to promoting research in mathematical and computational sciences, computing machinery, algorithms and hardware architecture necessary to convert big datasets into discovery and breakthroughs in our understanding of the brain's structure and function.

The trend toward a quantitative, task based, understanding of medical images leads to the simple goal of answering “how many bits of information would one expect a medical image to contain about disease status?” Knowing the answer to this question could impact a clinician's decision of whether or not to order an imaging study, particularly in the case where it involves ionizing radiation. This quantity can be studied in terms of mutual information between disease status and anatomical form, and is the problem being tackled by Johns Hopkins Kavli NDI researchers, Daniel Tward and Michael Miller.